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A reimagining of Caryl Churchill鈥檚 ground-breaking and celebrated play, Top Girls, opens this week at the Liverpool Everyman which sets the play 鈥� about female ambition and success across centuries and cultures - in Merseyside. Playwright Charlotte Keatley and theatre critic Susannah Clapp discuss the play鈥檚 themes and its continuing impact forty years after its premiere.

Prince Harry鈥檚 book Spare and the ripples it鈥檚 created have led to questions about the writing and publication of memoirs. In recent years, there has been a widening of the voices encouraged to write and getting published, but what is the impact on the authors, and should there be a greater duty of care? Agent Rachel Mills and Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of Love, a memoir about losing her brother, join Front Row to discuss.

The show must go on has long been the mantra of those working in theatre but last August, David Byrne, Artistic Director of New Diorama Theatre, made an astonishing announcement which began with the words, 鈥淭he end of the show must go on鈥� and went on to state that the theatre would be closing its doors for at least six months to allow time for an artistic reset. As New Diorama Theatre reopens, David joins Front Row to discuss what the resetting has revealed.

Presenter: Nick Ahad
Producer: Ekene Akalawu

Picture: Top Girls 鈥� Lauren Lane as Pope Joan 鈥� Photographer鈥檚 Credit Marc Brenner